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J. Dorsey Ewing, 76, a Stockton resident most of his life, died yesterday in his home, 628 Bristol.
Mr. Ewing is survived by his wife, he former Tutt List; a daughter and a son, Mrs. Barbour Ewing Scott of Stockton, S. John W. D. Ewing Jr. of McClellan Field, and two grandchildren, Susan Ann and John Crandall Scott of Stockton.
His affiliations included St. John's Episcopal Church, Scottish Rite Bodies, San Joaquin Lodge of Masons, Ben Ali Shrine, and the Anteros Club.
Born in Texas, Mr. Ewing moved to Stockton as an infant with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stanhope Barbour Ewing, and lived most of his life in the family home on North El Dorado Street.
For many years Mr. Ewing was employed by the Frist National Bank and by Boggs Real Estate here. He later was affiliated with an investment firm in Sacramento, retiring 15 years ago.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow in St. John's Episcopal Church. Inurnment will be in Casa Bonita Crematorium. B. C. Wallace & Son is in charge of arrangements.
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Mrs. Lou Eleanor Dorsey Ewing, esteemed Stockton woman of many years' residence, founder and first president of Sterling Price chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, and long an active worker in St. John's Episcopal Church, died yesterday afternoon at the family home, 1125 N. El Dorado street. Her passing came after an illness of over two weeks' duration, although she had been in poor health for a longer period. She lacked two months of being 80 years of age.
Mrs. Ewing, widow of Philip C. Barbour Ewing, a pioneer resident of a San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, who died many years ago, was the mother of Miss Edwa W. D. Ewing and J. Dorsey Ewing of Stockton and Mrs. Harry Marsh of San Francisco, formerly Miss Barbour Ewing. There is a grandson, Dorsey Ewing Marsh of San Francisco. A Sister, Miss Anna B. Dorsey, who has made her home at the Ewing residence, survives.
Mrs. Ewing was born in Missouri of parents who had recently moved there from their home in Maryland. Her girlhood was spent in her natal state and she was there during the trying period of the Civil war. Her parents being southerners, their sympathy was naturally with the Confederacy and Miss Dorsey was active in the war relief work which is always the lot of women to perform.
A number of years ago in Stockton Mrs. Ewing interested a group of Southern women in the formation of a chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She was chosen the first president when Sterling Price chapter was organized, and continued in that office for seven years or as long as her health permitted. Her daughter, Miss Ewing, is president at the present time. Mrs. Ewing was present at the chapter a month ago, but her illness prevented her attendance at the meeting earlier this week.
All during her long residence in Stockton, Mrs. Ewing has been actively identified with the Episcopal church. She was treasurer of the Sunday school and a teacher there for many years. In times past the Christmas tree, with its decorations and gifts, was one of the things in which she took a special interest.
Mrs. Ewing was a fine type of southern gentlewoman with a wholesome personality and quiet charm which won her many friends. Her untiring efforts in church, charity and other work to which she devoted herself, made her many more admirers.
Of distinguished lineage, she had many prominent family connections in Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky, as well as in this state. She was a great-aunt of Mrs. J. D. Young of Stockton and Dr. Samuel Langdon, formerly of this city, but more recently of Livingston, Merced County.

Ninety 2-year-old steers, 20 cows & heifers, 3 saddle horses, 1 mower and reaper combined, 1 corn planter, nine plows, four harrows, two hay rakes, two scrapers, one roller, one cider mill, one oat cutter, one hand sheller, two wagons and harness, 1500 lbs. bacon & lard. 70 acres corn in the field. Terms of sale. All sums of $10 and under, cash; on all sums over $10 a credit of six months will be given, the purchaser required to give bond with approved security. P B EWING.

Mrs. Lou Eleanor Dorsey Ewing, esteemed Stockton woman of many years' residence, founder and first president of Sterling Price chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, and long an active worker in St. John's Episcopal Church, died yesterday afternoon at the family home, 1125 N. El Dorado street. Her passing came after an illness of over two weeks' duration, although she had been in poor health for a longer period. She lacked two months of being 80 years of age.
Mrs. Ewing, widow of Philip C. Barbour Ewing, a pioneer resident of a San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, who died many years ago, was the mother of Miss Edwa W. D. Ewing and J. Dorsey Ewing of Stockton and Mrs. Harry Marsh of San Francisco, formerly Miss Barbour Ewing. There is a grandson, Dorsey Ewing Marsh of San Francisco. A Sister, Miss Anna B. Dorsey, who has made her home at the Ewing residence, survives.
Mrs. Ewing was born in Missouri of parents who had recently moved there from their home in Maryland. Her girlhood was spent in her natal state and she was there during the trying period of the Civil war. Her parents being southerners, their sympathy was naturally with the Confederacy and Miss Dorsey was active in the war relief work which is always the lot of women to perform.
A number of years ago in Stockton Mrs. Ewing interested a group of Southern women in the formation of a chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She was chosen the first president when Sterling Price chapter was organized, and continued in that office for seven years or as long as her health permitted. Her daughter, Miss Ewing, is president at the present time. Mrs. Ewing was present at the chapter a month ago, but her illness prevented her attendance at the meeting earlier this week.
All during her long residence in Stockton, Mrs. Ewing has been actively identified with the Episcopal church. She was treasurer of the Sunday school and a teacher there for many years. In times past the Christmas tree, with its decorations and gifts, was one of the things in which she took a special interest.
Mrs. Ewing was a fine type of southern gentlewoman with a wholesome personality and quiet charm which won her many friends. Her untiring efforts in church, charity and other work to which she devoted herself, made her many more admirers.
Of distinguished lineage, she had many prominent family connections in Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky, as well as in this state. She was a great-aunt of Mrs. J. D. Young of Stockton and Dr. Samuel Langdon, formerly of this city, but more recently of Livingston, Merced County.

Although I have nothing to substantiate this right now, it seems much more logical. If this is true, he should be buried in Cooper County, Missouri.

Living next door to father, Philip CS Barbour.

Reception immediately following the ceremony, Eleven sixty-two Oxford Way, Stockton, California.

MARYLAND JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
We learn that Wm F Frick, Esq., has been appointed, by the Governor, Chief Judge of the district composed of Baltimore city and county and Harford county, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Judge Archer. He has also appointed Judge Thomas B. Dorsey, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland. Judge Dorsey, who has so long and so acceptably discharged the responsible duties of a Judge f the High Court of Appeals, and presiding Judge of the Anne Arundel county district, is advanced to the honorable position of Chief Justice of the Court, as his service, learning and ability required he should be...

Application for bounty land warrant, presented before the Probate Court, Bowling Green, Pike, MO and certified by the Judge of the Probate Court, Judge Thomas J C Fagg, 16 Jan 1851. Warrant #31644 issued 3 Dec 1851 for 40 acres.

THOMAS B. DORSEY
JOHN T W DORSEY

NB The subscribers would sell this property (if desired) at private sale at any time before the 15th of June next.

Know all men by these presents that we, James O Broadhead and Caleb Dorsey as principal and ------as [clearly word or words concerning a bond] securities are held and firmly bound unto the State of Missouri in the sum seventy five thousand dollars for the true payment of which we hereby bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, witness of hand and seals this 19th day of July AD 1858. The condition of this bond is that if James O Broadhead and Caleb Dorsey, administrators of the Estate of Edward W Dorsey, deceased shall faithfully administer said Estate, account for, pay and deliver all money, property of said estate and perform all other things touching said administration required by law or the order of any court having jurisdiction then the above bond to be void, otherwise to remain in full force. Jas. O Broadhead, Caleb Dorsey, Aaron McPike, Joseph Roants, William Bankhead.

James O Braodhead and Caleb Dorsey on their oaths state that Edward W Dorsey, late of Pike County, Missouri has died leaving the following named heirs and representatives to wit: Eleanor E Dorsey, his widow and the following children to wit: Comfort W Porter of Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri and wife of Gilchrist Porter, John W Dorsey and Thomas B Dorsey of the state of California, Mary L Broadhead, wife of Jas O Broadhead, Caleb Dorsey, Annie Dorsey, Susan Dorsey and Edna(sic) Dorsey of Pike County, Missouri, the last three of whom are minors under the age of twenty one years, that the deceased died without a will and that they will make a perfect inventory of and faithfully administer all the estate of the deceased and pay the debts as far as the assets will extend and the same direct and account for and pay all assets which shall come to their possession or knowledge belonging to said estate. Jas. O. Broadhead, Caleb Dorsey. Filed for record July the 19th, 1858.

Death of Mrs. Gilchrist Porter, August 9, 1892
At 9 o'clock yesterday morning, at her home on South Sixth street, occurred the death of Mrs. Comfort Worthington Porter, wife of Judge Gilchrist Porter, at the age of 69 years 5 months and three days, and when the news went out in this city words of regret were expressed on every hand.
Miss Comfort Worthington Dorsey was born in Howard county, Maryland and after having grown to womanhood, with the advantages of a good education in native state, she removed to Missouri with the family of her father, Col. Edward W. Dorsey, who settled in Pike county. This was in the year 1838, and it was in Pike county that Judge Porter, who was then circuit attorney for that circuit met, wooed and won her. They were married at the home of the bride's father on the 25th day of February, 1840, and went to housekeeping at Bowling Green. In 1853 they removed to Hannibal and have resided here continuously since, with the exception of the fourteen years that Judge Porter was on the circuit bench, during which time they resided in Clarksville. When Judge Porter retired from that office they moved back to Hannibal, in 1881.
To Judge Porter and his good wife twelve children were born, seven of whom are now living, as follows: Ed. D. and W. C. Porter, of Joplin; J. D. Porter, of Lower California, and Charles U. Porter, also of California; Mrs. A. R. Levering, of this city, Mrs. W. H. Smith of Golden Gate, California, and Miss Annie Porter, of Hannibal. Ed. D. and W. C. were at the bed of their mother when dissolution took place, and Mr. R. H. Roberts, who married one of Judge Porter's daughters (now dead) will arrive today. Owing to the great distance that separates the children in California from the mourning household in Hannibal it will be impossible for them to attend the funeral.
To say that the death of this good woman has cast a gloom over the entire city is to speak truthfully. Her's was a character of great nobility and of untiring devotion to everything that was good and true. She was loved for her true worth and during the long and successful political career of the husband she now leaves heartbroken, she was a solace in the hour of trial, a devoted wife and a safe adviser. It is he, in his declining years, who will miss her more than all else - he who will realize that the dearest tie that bound him to earth has been broken. While his children are left to comfort him, yet the rude severance of the a married life of so many happy years is bound to leave a sore heart and a sad mein(sic) even unto the time when he too shall be called upon to answer the summon to go hence. While friends now say to him, "I sympathize with you," and while these kindly expressions have a tendency to sooth(sic) the heart that bleeds, yet remains the knowledge that death has come and his wife is no more. How hollow and idle are words of sympathy under such conditions, and yet how cold the world would be but for their presence.
Mrs. Porter was an active, earnest member of the Episcopal church, having become a communicant with that church 40 years ago. Since she first enlisted in the work of Christ her many good deeds have made her Christian career an especially bright one and they will live long after she has gone to make the world better and the hope of eternal life of those left behind more pronounced and cheering.
The funeral services will be conducted this afternoon by Rev. John Davis, rector of Trinity church, at the family residence, following which the interment will take place at Riverside Cemetery, Hannibal, Mo.
May her soul rest in peace.

Know all men by these Presents:
That we, Esther M Dorsey as principal, and, J W Dorsey and Caleb Dorsey both of the County of Stanislaus and State of California as sureties, are held and firmly bound to the state of California in the sum of fifteen Thousand dollars - 21st day of Oct 1885
Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Dorsey...died 28 Mar 1885 without a will...heirs at law Elizabeth M Dorsey Anita E Dorsey Kate W Dorsey all over 21, and Caleb, 17 years of age.

Notice of Location of Mill Site & Water Right: Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, That we the undersigned citizens of the United States of America, over the age of Twenty one, have this day located under the laws of the United States Fifteen hundred (1500) inches of water flowing in Knights Creek in the County of Tuolumne State of California to be taken out on the north side of said creek at a certain ditch constructed to take the same. Also three (3) acres of ground at the terminus of said ditch to be used as a Mill Site to have and to hold the same Dated this 22nd day of October 1891. Signed John Dorsey, Adam Elliot, J W Foster. Recorded at the Request of J W Foster Nov 14th 1891 at 10 min past 9 oclock AM. L P Cannon, County Recorder.

. Family living next door to Richard Morris and Julia Roberts and Edward Dorsey Porter.

Know all men by these Presents:
That we, Esther M Dorsey as principal, and, J W Dorsey and Caleb Dorsey both of the County of Stanislaus and State of California as sureties, are held and firmly bound to the state of California in the sum of fifteen Thousand dollars - 21st day of Oct 1885
Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Dorsey...died 28 Mar 1885 without a will...heirs at law Elizabeth M Dorsey Anita E Dorsey Kate W Dorsey all over 21, and Caleb, 17 years of age.

The New York Times; Published May 26, 1905.

Hon Champ Clark Apl 26th/94
House of Representatives
Dr Sir

Can you furnish
Me with the full name of
Col -------- Dorsey
Of the Missouri State Guard, & afterwards with Genl S. Price
In Confederate Service

& Oblige
Yours truly
Jos Darr

Caleb W. Dorsey is the name you want.

Your, Champ Clark.

Caleb Dorsey appears to have been in command at various times of service different bodies of men who were raised in Mo. for the Confed. service.
He was paid for services as Capt of Cav. Mo. ?? from June 27/61 to Dec 27, 1861 as Col. Of Inf. From the latter date.
He was captured while rectg [recruiting] near the Osage River Feb 15, 1862 & was imprisoned at Alton, Ill. Camp ??? Ohio & Ft Warren Mass. And was delivered to the confed August at ??? ??? Va. Aug 5, 1862 exchange at which time his age was stated as 28 yrs. Height 6 feet.
Subsequently he is mentioned as Capt. As Maj. & as Col. In Command of Troops and on Aug 20, 1864 he was authorized to recruit a regt. of Cav. For Shelby a Brig. CSA.
He appears in Nov 1864 to have been in command of a body of Confed. Troops in Mo.
No later rec. found.

32, 66. Blue, gray Blackwater Johnson Co., Miss. Accounting Officer.

Maj Gen E Halleck

D Sir
Learning that you have extended the parol of Genl Price and other officers of the Rebel Army lately taken prisoners - I am induced to ask that you will extend the parol of Col. Caleb Dorsey who is a brother of my wife - so as to enable him to go to Pike County Missouri where his mother resides and where his home is - I am not authorized to say that he is disposed to abandon the position which he has heretofore affirmed - but I think that the influences that would surround him on his return home would most probably induce him to change - but this I can pledge myself to that he would do nothing whilst on parol inconsistent with strict propriety of conduct as a prisoner of war parolee upon his honor -
Respectfully your
Jas. O Broadhead
P.S. - He is not at Alton

Comment on cover of letter "Make that the parole of Col. Caleb Dorsey may extended to allow him to go to Pike Co. Mo.".

Appears on a record of PRISONERS OF WAR at Fort Warren, Mass.

Age 28 ; height 6 feet inches
Eyes Gray ; hair Dark
When received April 9 186 2
Where taken Fort Donalson
Remarks: Released July 31, 1862 to be exchanged.

February 2d, Maj. Caleb Dorsey, with his squadron of Confederate cavalry, was escorting the steamboat Julia Roane down the Arkansas river, when at White Oak, seven miles west of Ozark, he was attacked by a band of Arkansas Federal, under Captain Galloway. Dorsey, with his confederates, charged and routed them, killing horses and wounding several of the enemy, who retreated to Frog bayou. On February 3d, Capt Peter Mankins, with a portion of his company, was surrounded in a house on Mulberry by a scouting party under Captain Travis, which Mankins repulsed, killing two men of the Tenth Illinois and wounding others.

Full article in Caleb Dorsey Book - several references to Dorsey's involvement around the massacre of the Calloway County boys at Brown's farm.

HDQRS. DETACH. FOURTH CAV. MO. STATE MILITIA.
Fulton, Mo., November 8, 1864
General: On the night of the 5th instant Dorsey, with 200 men, camped ten miles southwest of this place. At 12 midnight he took up the line of march for some point on the Missouri River. I received information that he was in camp at the place above mentioned. at noon of the 6th. I immediately went in pursuit with sixty-five of my command. I struck the trail late in the evening at a point ten miles west of south of this place, and found that he was bearing east. I followed the trail through by-roads and plantations until near midnight, when I lost his trail and came to a halt. I learned that there were two Union families within a mile of me. I sent a sergeant to one place for information of the whereabouts of the enemy. I also sent for and procured a Union man for a guide. I learned that the enemy were crossing the river two miles and a half below Cote Sans Dessein, at the farm of one Swan Ferguson. I delayed no time after receiving information, but moved at once. At about 1 o'clock I arrived at the farm of Ferguson. Not seeing any camp-fires of the enemy, I sent two men, dismounted, to reconnoiter for his camp. In about one hour his camp was found, or rather his point of crossing, with a few men and horses still remaining on this side. I dismounted all of my men, leaving ten men to guard the horses. I went into the brush with my men and moved cautiously, and surrounded the point at which the enemy were crossing the river, and arriving at their fires found that I was too late. The last load had crossed intervening the time that the camp was discovered and the report could reach me and I could move to the place of the crossing. It was pitch darkness, thick brush and heavy timber to pass through. My information up to this time had been that the enemy were crossing in skiffs. I remained on the ground till daylight, and ascertained that Dorsey had captured a steam-boat at dusk, but I did not learn the name of the steam-boat.
On my return to this place a detachment of one sergeant and five men of my command pursued two of Dorsey' men from the river a distance of fifteen miles, following them by their tracks, overhauled them, killed 1, mortally wounded the other, and slightly wounded a third, who had fallen in company with the two. A short time before my men came upon them, captured their arms and equipments, consisting of blankets, saddle-bags, and a regular outfit for the brush confederacy. One pair of the saddle-bags had a new pair of Federal cavalry pants in them. Conscripts are coming in slowly. I think this country is quiet for the present, but I cannot tell how long it will remain so. It is with much difficulty that we can obtain information from citizens as to where an enemy is in this country.
General, I am, with much respect, your obedient servant, D. Dale, Major Fourth Cav., Missouri State Mil., Comdg. at Fulton, Mo. (Brig. Gen. E B Brown).

Dearest Loudie

I crossed the "Grand River of the North" (Rio Grande Del Norte) this morning and have determined to write you a few lines, without the slightest prospect of getting an answer for a long, long time. As I leave here, for some "other" Place, in a day or two - As to where I shall go 'tis scarcely yet known to myself - Perhaps when I write again 'twill be from some foreign port - I am no Citizen of the United States as you are aware of, therefore can promise myself nothing but eternal trouble by coming to Mo. where there has been so much trouble among the contending parties -
Write to John & Tom & say that they will hear from me soon - I have been in unusual good health all winter & spring - have not had a line or heard a word from any of you since November last -
I shall try and find a country where you can join me if you wish it -
W H E & "Sallie G's" "George" are with me - Both in moderate health - Crocket is also with me & well - I cannot yet write you a letter that is at all satisfactory & will therefore make this as short as possible - I do not design joining either party in this country unless some unlooked for change takes place in the present status of affairs --
Presently kindest regards & sympathy to my old friends --
The Boys wish to be kindly remembered to their friends - and send much love to you --
With much love to all I am as ever Devotedly
Caleb.

After the War between the States it was difficult for southern people to get established for farming in a new country. The Dorsey brothers had but two teams of mules for use in sowing wheat; one plowed in the daytime and one at night using a lantern hung on the plowbeam. Impressed with the new land, Philip C Barbour Ewing returned to Kentucky and from his plantations brought out to the ranch mules, cattle and some of his blooded horses, shipping via the new overland railroad.

In June, 1868, the Stanislaus Steam Navigation Company was incorporated under an act of legislature passed the previous April. The company was to clear the Stanislaus River of all obstructions in the way of trees, snags, and so forth. This they did, from Burneyville (ed: now Riverbank) west to the mouth of the river. The first steamer to make the trip was the Clara Crow. A small sternwheeler then twenty years of age and already a veteran in river transportation. The steamboat company invited the board of supervisors to make this trip, but on one, Caleb Dorsey, made the maiden voyage. The Clara Crow left Stockton on May 1, 1869, and that night they tied up at E E Taylor's ferry near the present Caswell Park. The next day they steamed into Burneyville to be greeted by a large crowd of citizens. The steamer loaded forty tons of grain and the next day it departed downstream.

At the annual meeting of the San Joaquin Agricultural Society held Saturday, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, L U Shippee...Vice Presidents, Stanislaus county, S H Rogers and Caleb Dorsey...

HON. CALEB DORSEY, Stanislaus County; Is a representative in the Assembly of Stanislaus County, and resides at Oakdale. He is a native of Maryland, 43 years old, single, and came to California from Missouri in 1865. He is a confirmed Democrat, and a farmer by occupation. Mr. Dorsey served on the Confederate army, with the rank of Colonel, during the rebellion. Since becoming a resident of his present County he has been one of the Supervisors for three years. He has also been President of the Bank of Modesto, and President of the San Joaquin Agricultural Society, and is now one of the Directors of the State Insane Asylum at Stockton. This is Mr. Dorsey's first trial as a legislator. He is a tall, good-looking bachelor, courteous and gentlemanly in his deportment, and is liberally endowed with that most necessary element of success - go-ahead. Mr. Dorsey is Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs.

---- F H Darling of Napa; N L Bancroft of New York; Caleb Dorsey of Sonora, and AI Elkins of Sacramento are at the Cosmopolitan.

Caleb Dorsey
Snell Qtz Mine
Tuolumne Mg D.
Tuolumne Co.
20.66 acres $105.00
Patent written April 8, 1891 LMW
Patent No 17839
Date May 6/91
Recorded Vol 198 p 49
To R & R May 28, 1891 SB

Land Entry file contains Affadavit of Citizenship; it states he is a citizen b. County of Baltimore, State of Maryland in the year 1833 and is now a resident of Oakdale Stanislaus Co. Cala. Signature of Caleb Dorsey - dated 31 Dec 1886. The Mining claim hereby located is situated in Tuolumne Mining District, Tuolumne County, State of California and is in T3N R15E S7 in a Southwesterly direction from the Wilson Ranch. This location is distinctly marked on the ground so that its boundaries can be readily traced by a monument set at a discovery shaft where this Notice and Statement is posted this 15th day of May 1880 and by substantial posts or monuments of stone at each corner of the claim, and the exterior boundaries of the claim as marked by said posts or monuments are as follows: Beginning at this monument and notice and extending 750 feet in a Westerly direction to a stone monument thence 300 feet in a Northerly direction to a stake, thence 1500 feet in a Easterly direction to a stake thence 300 feet, Southerly to a stone monument, thence 300 feet Southerly to a stake thence 1500 feet to a stake which is the South west corner thence 300 feet to the stone monument to the place of beginning. The undersigned intends to hold this claim under and according to the Laws of the United States and of the State of California and to record this notice and statement under oath in the County Recorders Office of said County as provided by law Dated this 15th day of May 1880 and signed Robert Ross, Locator and claimant, Recorded at request of R Ross, January 10th 1881 at 39 M P o'clock AM in volume 2 Page 309 of Records of Mining Claims of Tuolumne County.
On the 31st day of May AD 1881 Robert Ross conveyed by Deed to Caleb Dorsey all his right title and interest in that certain Quartz Claim known as the Snell Quartz Lode Mining Claim, above described Said Deed being of Record in book A Vol 20 Page 455 of Deeds Tuolumne County Records and Recorded in June 1st 1881 at 9 H A M.

Claim abandoned and repatented to E L Pearcy and S Plenningham 9, Dec 1886.

Claim abandoned and repatented to H A Reading 9 Dec 1886, Dec 1886.

Modesto, July 21st - Yester day morning news was brought to this place over the telephone that the whole country was on fire north of Oakdale or just across the Stanislaus river, near Burnett's station...The fire broke out on the northwest corner of Col. Caleb Dorsey's ranch, about five miles from the river. It is supposed that two men were smoking, and that the fire from their pipes caught the grain and before they noticed it, it got under such headway that no one could go near enough to put it out...The fire started about 10 o'clock and it was not under control until 3:30. During this time it had run about five miles and covered a country three miles wide, destroying some of the finest grain in the valley. It was reported that several farm houses had been destroyed. Col. Dorsey lost one of his tenant houses and the barn, valued at $900. He also lost a thrashing machine and one of Shippee's combined headers and thrashers, valued at about $3,000...
PROBABLE LOSSES.
As everybody was excited it is impossible at this time to tell exactly what the losses will amount to. As near as could be learned from the insurance men it is as follows: Col. Dorsey, 1,040 acres; loss $30,00; no insurance; also one house and barn, $900; one of Shippee's combined header and thrasher and one steam thrashing machine, $3,600; partly insured. R Robinson, or Robinson and Carey, 1,200 acres: loss, $20,000; insurance, $7 per acre. L. Grainger, 120 acres; loss, $4,000; insurance, $10 per acre. Isaac Watson, 900 acres; loss, $16,000; insurance, $7 per acre. Paulsel & Muncy, 200 acres; loss, $16,000; insurance, $7 per acre. Total loss, $90,100; total insurance, $23,200.

Know all men by these Presents:
That we, Esther M Dorsey as principal, and, J W Dorsey and Caleb Dorsey both of the County of Stanislaus and State of California as sureties, are held and firmly bound to the state of California in the sum of fifteen Thousand dollars - 21st day of Oct 1885
Administratrix of the Estate of Caleb Dorsey...died 28 Mar 1885 without a will...heirs at law Elizabeth M Dorsey Anita E Dorsey Kate W Dorsey all over 21, and Caleb, 17 years of age.

...It is not so easy to tell the delegates to the National Convention. TO GO TO ST. LOUIS ...
...J J White of Alameda and E G Blessing of Sacramento, it is understood, will go form the Third District. From the Second C P Berry will probably be one of the delegates, and Caleb Dorsey of Stanislaus would not refuse to go too.

Arrivals at the Capital Hotel yesterday: ...Caleb Dorsey, Stanislaus Co.

Notice Is hereby given that we the undersigned claim (5) acres of this land including the Springs of water for a Mill Site to be hedl in accordance with the United States Mining Laws Situated in Tuolumne County Cal and described as follows: North of Knights Creek about 1 mile and about 1/2 a mile from the Snell Mine and known as the Old Wilson Ranch. Caleb Dorsey, Adam Elliot, Located this 10 day of October AD 1890. Recorded at the Request of Wells Fargo & Co Oct 27, 1890 at 9 o'clock AM. R. Inch County Recorder.

1. Colonel Caleb Dorsey of Pike County Missouri was on recruiting service under General Price both in the State Guard and Confederate service. He now resides in California on a Ranch.
2. Captain Celsus Price Son of Major General Sterling Price was aide de camp on his father's Staff till the end of the War, now resides in Saint Louis
3. The other son was named Edwin W. Price and was a Recruiter General of the third Division Missouri State Guard, was taken prisoner in the War in the Winter of 1861, on the Osage River near Warsaw while on recruiting service, was exchanged for a Federal officer of equal rank, reported to his father in Mississippi and --?-- he returned to Missouri and remained till the end of the War.
Respectfully
Your obt servt
R H Musser.

J C Newcomer was held to answer without bonds for the killing of Col. Dorsey. Newcomer did not testify.

Many inquiries have recently been made by his friends concerning the death of Colonel Caleb Dorsey, who was shot and killed in Tuolumne County, California, by a man named Newcomber, who was interested with him in a gold mine and mill in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, some distance from Sonora, Colo. Dorsey was raised in Pike County, Misouri(sic), and had numerous friends throughout the State. He served in the Confederate Army as Lieutenant Colonel of a regiment in Shelby's Brigade, throughout the War of the Rebellion. He was universally respected and beloved wherever he was known, both here and in California, where he has resided on a rancho in Stanislaus County since the close of the war. From the best and most recent information obtained, it appears that no other persons were present at the time of the shooting - it was done in a cabin near the mill, and after the shooting Newcomber locked the door and went over to the mine, which was about a mile off, and delivered the key to the cook - said he had shot Dorsey in self-defense - then went on.
In a recent number of a Stockton paper just received appears the following "The prevailing opinion seems to be that the killing of Colonel Dorsey, who was shot on Tuesday, April 21, was unprovoked and not in self-defense, as his slayer alleges Colonel Dorsey had no weapon upon him, and no one can be found who does not say that he was never known to provoke a man to anger in private life. Mr. Rutherford of Stockton, who knew Colonel Dorsey during the civil war, gave some interesting particulars of his life during the war, which stamp him as one of the bravest, coolest men who fought with General Price in the West. He said 'After the war General Price told me that he considered Colonel Dorsey one of the most discreet, cool and brave men in his command, and that he would rather trust him with any delicate mission, or one that required unquestioned courage, than any other man in his army.'
Mr. Rutherford knew Colonel Dorsey from boyhood, and never before knew him to have a personal difficulty with anyone. He ended the interview by saying, "During all my acquaintance with Colonel Dorsey I never knew him to have an enemy; he never sought trouble and was too much respected for anyone ever to offer him an insult.".

Sonora, Cal., April 22. - The Coroner's inquest throws no new light on the killing of Colonel Caleb T. Dorsey, and J. T. Newcomer, the homicide, still positively refuses to make a statement of kind regarding the cause of the killing. W. H. Bailey gave the most important testimony at the inquest. Newcomer having given him, briefly, the reasons for his act.
"The first I knew of any trouble was Tuesday morning between 8 and 9 o'clock," said Bailey. "Mr. Newcomer came to the house and turned over the keys to his cabin to me, saying he had shot Colonel Dorsey. He wanted me to go down and take charge of the place. I asked him how it happened and he said he asked the colonel to appoint a receiver for their mine, and the colonel said he would have gold enough to pay everything. Hot words followed and Dorsey reached for his pistol, but Newcomer drew his first and fired. He said he did not know if he had killed Dorsey or not, but thought that he had. He then rode away and said that he was going to Sonora to give himself up."
Newcomer is reported as having said in Columbia on yesterday that Dorsey accused him of stealing amalgam from the mills. He called Dorsey a liar. Dorsey reached for his pistol, but Newcomer got in the first shot. Dorsey's nephew, as well as others who were at the mine at the time of the shooting, knew of no trouble between the partners. Dorsey's pistol could not be found, although it was his custom to carry one always. The searchers did find cartridges on his person.
Dorsey's friends attempted to bring his body out from the mine on a mule to-day. The mule became fretful and unmanageable and after hard work they succeeded in getting the body from its back, and enfolding it in a blanket, strapped it to a buckboard. They are bringing the corpse by the wagon road via Sugar Pine, a distance of thirty-five miles. It will reach Sonora before morning.
Colonel Dorsey was a cousin of the late Caleb Dorsey, for many years District Attorney of this county and a prominent mining lawyer. The Colonel was a Mason of high rank.

Sonora, Cal., Aug. 11 -- The trial of John To Newcomer for the murder of Caleb Dorsey began in earnest to-day, the twelfth juror being sworn during the morning hours. The District Attorney made a short opening address, reciting the main facts of the killing and then called Thomas B Dorsey, a brother of the murdered man, to the stand.
Dorsey testified to the general correctness of a map showing the Dorsey mine and surrounding buildings and topographical features. William Bailey, a cook at the mine, testified that on the morning of the shooting he was in the kitchen when Newcomer drove up to the cabin and asked him to come out. Newcomer told him that he had shot Dorsey, but did not know whether he had killed him or not. He was going into Sonora to give himself up. He handed to Bailey a key to the cabin where he and Dorsey lived and told him to go down and look after the wounded man. Bailey gave the key to Samuel Bateman, who went down to the place to look after the colonel.
Samuel Bateman stated that on the day of the shooting he noticed in the mine -?- a pistol which belong to Dorsey: of the neck on the right and below the ribs near the abdomen. Bateman state that Edward Dorsey, a son of the murdered man, had gone down to the cabin where his father's body lay, but did not go in, and at no time did he see him with his father's pistol.
Charles Owens was the last witness of the day and merely testified to the fact that on the day of the murder, while he was at the mine, Newcomer had told him that Colonel Dorsey was up in the woods cutting timber for firewood. This is important so far as Newcomer's veracity is concerned, as all that the colonel lay cold in death.

However, 18 Mar 1903, JT Newcomer committed suicide in a remote cabin in Tuolumne County. After being acquitted of the murder of Dorsey, he was never able to recover his life, was ostracized by the community. "Feared by his neighbors and without friends, he finally turned on himself the weapon which wrecked his life and his fortune." (SF Call Newspaper, 20 Mar 1903).

Mary S. Broadhead, Anna B. Dorsey, L. E. D. Ewing (individually), Samuel W R Langdon, Eleanor M Levering, Millie Porter as Executrix and Trustee under the Will of Edward D. Porter, deceased, Annie D Porter, J D Porter, William C Porter, G Porter Roberts, Nellie L Young and Annie R Hodgdon having filed herein their petition for a partial distribution, and the same coming on regularly to be heard this day, and it appearing to the Court from the proofs adduced, that personal notice of the hearing of said petition had been given to the administratrix of the estate of the deceased, and by the Clerk by posting for the time and in the manner required by law and the order of this Court, the Court proceeded to the hearing of said petition.
And it appearing to the Court from the proofs adduced, that more than fifteen years has elapsed since the issuance of letters of administration; That the time for filing and presenting claims has expired; that all claims that have been allowed against said estate have been paid, and said estate is not indebted except for the commissions of the administratrix and the attorney's fees to be allowed on final settlement; That a final distribution of the estate of said deceased cannot now be made, for the reason that an action for an accounting is pending in the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Tuolumne, as to certain mining property belonging to the estate of said deceased; That said deceased left certain real property in the State of Texas, some of which has been sold, and, by agreement of some of the heirs, the proceeds thereof turned over to the administratrix of the estate of said deceased to be by her distributed; That the petitioners above named are all heirs at law of said deceased and entitled to share in the proceeds of the Texas property; That petitioners G Porter Roberts, Nellie L Young and Annie R Hodgdon are a grand-nephew and grand-nieces, respectively of said deceased, and are not entitled to share in the property of said deceased situated in the State of California; That after leaving in the hands of said administratrix the sum of $697.49 (the proceeds from California property) and the sum of $573.13 from the proceeds of Texas property to meet the payment of her commissions and attorney's fees on final settlement, the shares of those of the above-named petitioners that may be entitled thereto, in the proportions hereinafter set out, in eight (8) shares of the capital stock of The San Joaquin Valley Bank and five (5) shares of the capital stock of Modesto Grange Company, and in moneys received from the proceeds of Texas property can be allowed to said petitioners, as such heirs, without loss to the creditors of said estate, and that no injury can result to the estate by reason of such partial distribution; It is by the Court here ordered, adjudged and decreed that the eight(8) shares of the capital stock of The San Joaquin Valley Bank and five (5) shares of the capital stock of Modesto Grange Company be and the same are hereby distributed to the following name petitioners, in the following proportions, to wit:
To petitioners Mary S. Broadhead, Anna B. Dorsey, LED Ewing, (individually) and Samuel W R Langdon, an undivided one-sixth (1/6) each;
To petitioners Eleanor M Levering, Annie D Porter, J D Porter, William C Porter and Millie Porter as the surviving wife of and trustee under the will of Edward D Porter, deceased, and undivided one-forty-second (1/42) each;
And that there be distributed to the following named petitioners, out of the proceeds of the Texas property, the sums set opposite to their names respectively, to wit:
Mary S Broadhead, Anna B Dorsey, LED Ewing (individually)and Samuel WR Langdon each the sum of $481.60;
Eleanor M Levering, Annie D Porter, J D Porter, William C Porter each the sum of $60.20;
G. Porter Roberts, Nellie L Young, Annie R Hodgdon each the sum of $20.06
It is further ordered that no bond be required of any of said petitioners on this distribution. Dated June 30, 1911.
L W Fulkerth, Judge.

Dr. Walter R Langdon, brother to Dr. Samuel Langdon, of this city, and Assistant Physician of the State Insane Asylum, was joined in matrimony yester, with an estimable young lady, sister of Colonel Dorsey of Stanislaus county. The nuptioal ceremony was performed at the dwelling of the bride's mother and brother, and the knot was duly tied by Rev. Mr. Foote, Rector of St. John's Episcopal Church of this city. The worthy couple took their departure last evening on a wedding tour for a few days.

Another patent, Liber CD, folio 76.

Another patent, Liber WD, folio 141.